Here are the pictures of the Mei Tai. Grace likes this one better than the first one. She says this one doesn't hurt her legs and it's not hot.

One of the features of a Mei Tai is you can still use it while pregnant. I don't think I want to use it too often though - that's too many kids to carry for too long. :)
I am 29 weeks pregnant in this picture.

Notice the lovely patio my husband has created this past month. I love it! We still need to put the sand in the cracks, but it is a HUGE improvement over the dirt that the patio has been for the past two years.

So why haven't I blogged in a while???
Reason #1 The computer monitor blew up on me and I had to wait for a new one.

Reason #2 My boys can't make up their minds about what operating system they want and I cannot keep up!

Reason #3 It is SPRINGTIME!!!!

Reason #4 I have been catching up on my reading.

March was a lovely month - oh so very much better than February. (I am hoping that the next three months go as quickly as March did. Tomorrow I enter the third trimester of this pregnancy and I am looking forward to THE END!)

The kids and I have been very busy taking long walks/bike rides around the neighborhood and generally being outside at every available moment.
We have onions, potatoes, carrots, peas, beets, radishes, lettuce, swiss chard, chives and cilantro growing in our garden. We have even begun to enjoy the harvest of the lettuce and the chives this week and look forward to radishes by next week. Happy days! I love to eat out of my very own garden.
The crocuses and the daffodils have come and gone and now the tulips are blooming. All of the fruit trees have beautiful pink and white flowers on them and the berries are leafing out.
Randy has been working very hard getting our patio extended on the weekends and it is looking fabulous!
Did I mention that I LOVE springtime?!!

Last week, the kids went to an assisted living center with their fiddle group to play for the residents there. It was so fun! When they were finished several residents asked if we would come back. When Monique said we would, one lady said, "WHEN." It was cute. Monique said we would try to come back next month. I hope we do.

I have made a goal to keep up on my church lessons - reading the lesson before I attend the class. It really helps me get more out of the class. Good Stuff.
I have also been trying to get through the Church News each week and keep my Ensign read. It is amazing how much a girl can learn from such publications and how relevant they seem to be to what I have been thinking about or working on.

I finished Fascinating Womanhood - fabulous book, Highly recommended.
I also read Alas, Babylon for my 5 Pillar Group tonight - great book! It is a book written in the 50s about Russia bombing all the major cities at the same time, effectively ending civilization as we know it in a matter of minutes and what took place in the days after. It gave me a lot to think about. I think I will go buy some extra needles next time I get to Walmart. Oh, and I still want a farm.
I am also working on The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer and The Great Conversation.
I won't be running out of reading material anytime soon with all the Great Books of the Western World, the classics on the first pillar reading list from George Wythe College, the Lord's Library (all the books written by the Prophets of this dispensation), and the huge stack of books I just want to read - all just waiting for me.
Right now they are all waiting for me in huge stacks in my family room as my book cases that I ordered two months ago still haven't arrived! Maybe this week they will come. I hope so.

We have to run now - time to set up for Pack Meeting.

P.S. As soon as Colin teaches me about Windows Vista Business, I will upload some photos.

It's a boy!

I just got back from my visit with the doctor at Maternal Fetal Medicine. We are definitely having a boy.
The ultrasound agreed with my due date of June 27th.
The MCA scan to check anemia indicates mild anemia possible. Not too great, but the scan doesn't indicate any further treatment - only more monitoring.
Also the umbilical cord only has one artery instead of two. Not a problem yet, but could be later as the baby may not get the nutrients it needs and may need to be induced early.
I did have an amnio while I was there to check blood type. If the baby is RH- then I can go back to the Baby Place and have a happy pregnancy. If the baby is Rh+, then I will remain in high risk. My gut feeling says the baby is RH+. I decided it would be best to find out for sure, I would hate to stress for the rest of the pregnancy and inflict unnecessary interventions on an Rh- baby. The amnio went fine. I am just supposed to take it a little easy for a few days to avoid contractions and such. The results will be back from the lab in two weeks. More waiting - UGGH!
I was nervous about going to the specialist. I do not like the front office girls in Doctors' offices. I only talked to one front desk girl and she is very new and not too impersonal. The ultrasound tech, the nurse, and the doctor were all very nice and the Dr. made me feel like I was part of the team not just a patient. I think everything will be okay. Whew.

The Happy News of the day is that Katie had a baby girl this morning. Her name is Ella. That is all I know for now. Yeah, Katie!

Bad News. I got my blood titers retested on Wednesday and the numbers went way up. I am working on getting an appointment for early next week with the specialist. So much for ideal plans. Anyway, I am trying not to freak out too much. Pray for me.